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The turmoil in judiciary has reached the zenith. A high court judge is to be impeached. Judges are allowed to be investigated by CBI; senior lawyers are convicted for buying witnesses, not to forget other miscellaneous offences committed by members of lower judiciary. The words of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have not come a day too soon when he said: "Time has come for 'introspection' on judicial appointments...There is no doubt that the personal record and reputation of those who sit in judgement does shape our view of the judicial system.

NEW DELHI: India will soon set up a dedicated legal forum in Chennai to deal with Intellectual Property Rights cases - an indication of the government's seriousness in promoting IPR as a tool for economic development. "We are meeting today to select members for the Board. It would sit in Chennai and be chaired by a High Court judge selected by the Supreme Court," Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Ajay Dua said at Indo-US Economic Cooperation conference on Science and Technology and IPR here.

NEW DELHI: AIADMK members in Lok Sabha today sought an enquiry into the allegations of corruption in judiciary made by former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju , charging DMK and the erstwhile UPA government with "interfering" in the appointment of a Madras High Court judge. "It is a serious matter ... the previous government and the DMK interfered in the appointment of a corrupt judge," AIADMK leader M Thambidurai said during Zero Hour, demanding a probe into the allegations by the government.

PANAJI: Goa Government today announced formation of a high-level committee to be headed by a retired high court judge to probe the irregularities being pointed out by Justice M B Shah panel in its report on iron ore mining in the state. "The Independent High Level Investigation Committee (IHLIC) will be headed by retired high court judge R M Khandeparkar, and will submit its report within two months," Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar told reporters after the Cabinet approved setting up of the panel.

SINGAPORE: Four Indians, facing charges for their roles in Singapore's worst riot in four decades in December last year, have withdrawn their applications for judicial review proceedings against the government. Three Indian nationals - Arun Kaliamurthy, Rajendran Mohan and Ravi Arun Vengatesh - had sought to quash certain conditions imposed on them pending their criminal trial related to the rioting. The trio were required to report daily to the Immigration and Check Point Authority . "Two separate judicial review proceedings against the Government, brought by individual charged in connection with the Little India's Riot, have been withdrawn by the individuals concerned," Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC)

NEW DELHI: The issue of alleged sexual harassment of a lady judge in Gwalior was raised in the Rajya Sabha today with senior lawyer and nominated member KTS Tulsi demanding immediate action on her complaint saying it would otherwise demoralise lady judges in the country. Complaining of sexual harassment by a judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court, the additional judge had resigned on July 15 and wrote to the Chief Justice of India and others on August 1 in this regard. Raising the issue during Zero Hour , Tulsi said there has been an "inordinate delay" in examining the allegations of the lady judge.

BANGALORE: BJP members in the Karnataka Assembly today staged a walkout over the issue of police firing at farmers protesting the setting up of a 2000 MW thermal plant at Kudagi in Bijapur district on Saturday. Opposition BJP leader Jagadish Shettar said government was anti-farmers as "innocent" people had been fired at, causing bullet injuries to two persons. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had failed to live up to his promise on the floor of the House during Belgaum session that no farmers would be lathicharged and fired at. "The promise has been broken.

MADURAI: The Madras High Court has ruled that advocates cannot file writ petitions seeking a direction to the collegium of judges to consider their names for appointment as judges of the high court. Rejecting the petition of advocate P. Subburaj at the stage of maintainability, a division bench comprising justices N. Paul Vasanthakumar and P. Devadass said the lawyer had no enforceable right to seek a writ of mandamus. "Just because bio-data has been submitted to some of the Honourable Judges, petitioner cannot compel the Collegium (comprising the Chief Justice and two senior most judges of high courts)

Recently, the Pune Municipal Commissioner, Dr Nitin Kareer, approved of a one-man panel for arbitration of property tax disputes of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) that are pending in the courts for years. "This decision is not a sudden one. We have been about it for the last six to seven months," informs the PMC commissioner. This decision came through when we found that we have around Rs 65 crore locked up in arrears and that PMC is showing losses. "The idea was to also help people get justice as well as recover the losses that PMC is facing," stressed Kareer, when asked why was it necessary to bring in an arbitrator.

The Union law minister has said the government is open to enacting a law giving necessary powers to the Chief Justice of India to discipline erring judges. This is an idea whose time has come. There have been many instances of venality and unedifying behaviour on the part of high court judges in the recent past. A Rajasthan High Court judge was involved in a sex scandal and was forced to resign. A Delhi High Court judge went the same way. Then we had the spectacle of a "strike" by the judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court.